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America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental DiplomatAmerica, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat While this book is by no means famous, it is a remarkable chance to look at America of 1914 through the eyes of an outsider. Wu Tingfang shows evidence of having thought through many issues of...
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Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-FireIndian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire The great Northwestthat wonderful frontier that called to itself a world's hardiest spiritsis rapidly becoming a settled country; and before the light of civilizing influences, the blanket-Indian has trailed the buffalo over the divide that time...
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Pharsalia Dramatic Episodes of the Civil WarsPharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil WarsOriginally written in Latin, approximately A.D. 61-65, by the Roman poet Lucan, and probably left unfinished upon his death in A.D. 65. Although the work has been generally known through most of history as the "Pharsalia", modern scholarship...
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Heimskringla Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of NorwayHeimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway In this book I have had old stories written down, as I have heard them told by intelligent people, concerning chiefs who have have held dominion in the northern countries, and who spoke the Danish...
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Notes from the UndergroundNotes from the Underground * The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider...
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialRobert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialMy little effort to make Thoreau better known in England had one result that I am pleased to think of. It brought me into personal association with R. L. Stevenson, who had written and published...
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CatrionaCatriona It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Companys office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted...
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Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a FriendReligio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a FriendSIR THOMAS BROWNE (whose works occupy so prominent a position in the literary history of the seventeenth century) is an author who is now little known and less read. This comparative oblivion to which he has...
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Running a Thousand Miles for FreedomRunning a Thousand Miles for Freedom - Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from SlaveryHAVING heard while in Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these...
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The History of the Thirty Years' WarThe History of the Thirty Years' WarThe present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first...
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The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainThe Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainI cannot permit the second edition of this work to go to press without premising it with a few words. When some two years ago I first gave The Zincali to the world, it was, as...
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Puck of Pook's HillPuck of Pook's Hill And see you marks that show and fade, Like shadows on the Downs? O they are the lines the Flint Men made, To guard their wondrous towns! The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as...
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The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican RevolutionThe Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela, the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he began the practice...
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The Life of Me: An AutobiographyThe Life of Me: An AutobiographyThis writing grew out of a request from my daughter, Anita, that I write to her concerning me, my family, my parents and their families; how we lived, how we grew up; our ideals, our customs, and our social...
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A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in SamoaA Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in SamoaAn affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the...
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Travels with a Donkey in the CevennesTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesThe journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan...
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Joe the Hotel Boy Or, Winning out by PluckJoe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck A number of years ago the author of this story set out to depict life among the boys of a great city, and especially among those who had to make their own way in the...
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Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People Until within the past ten years a study of Chinese court life would have been an impossibility. The Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the court ladies were shut up within the Forbidden City, away...
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The Chinese Boy and GirlThe Chinese Boy and Girl No thorough study of Chinese child life can be made until the wall of Chinese exclusiveness is broken down and the homes of the East are thrown open to the people of the West. Glimpses of that life however,...
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History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows. With pick and shovel...
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